Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I marked my 20th anniversary in Flickr and on YouTube with this video (darn the gown doesn’t fit!). After sharing our wedding photo on Flickr in 2009, I received an email from an Esquire Magazine writer asking for permission to use the photo. September 14, 1986. We’ve been together for 32 years!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

There is a good reason Time Magazine named the iPhone the Invention of the Year in 2007 and that 87% of smartphone consumers in the United States chose the iPhone. Tags: Facebook Flickr LinkedIn Mobile Technology MySpace Twitter YouTube. Perhaps an iPhone or two is something your organization should write into next year’s budget?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Originally published in the November 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine where I have written a quarterly column throughout 2011. If they have well-executed social media campaigns, send executive staff links to their profiles on Facebook , Twitter , YouTube, Flickr , Foursquare, Tumblr , etc., Find your competitors the Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Newspapers and magazines publish these sorts of articles regularly because they generate buzz. It’s also good to feature quotes from supporters who attended the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I celebrated my 20th anniversary in Flickr and with this video (darn the gown doesn't fit this year!) from Esquire Magazine's Awkward Wedding Photos . The original photo is on Flickr and caught the eye of an editor from Esquire Magazine who was looking for photos to illustrate a piece about wedding photos.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 24, 2011

How to Create a Juicy Blogging Vision Board Materials: Magazines you don't mind cutting up, a manila file folder, a glue stick, scissors, a timer, Mod Podge (optional), and a paper grocery bag. Keep your answers in mind as you look through your magazines. If you post it on your blog, or Flickr, please share your link in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2007

My Flickr Stream. A few months ago, Rebecca Krause-Hardie and I co-wrote an article for ArtsReach Magazine about how arts organizations are mixing in social media strategies. You can find a copy of the article here. If you are interested in learning about how arts organizations are using the social web, read Becky's blog!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Newspapers and magazines publish these sorts of articles regularly because they generate buzz. It’s also good to feature quotes from supporters who attended the event.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2011

Megaphone: Flickr: floeschie Every week we pull together interesting tid-bits from across the web where NTEN members are making – or writing – headlines! In the News A big congratulations to John Merritt for his nomination and award as a 2011 Top Tech Exec from San Diego Magazine ! Have more news to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. In Tunisia, E-Mediat Participating NGO “ Association of Journalist of Kairouan ” won the 2nd prize of the best political video by Web Manager Center , which is one of the most famous Tunisian online Magazine ! You can read more about it on the Tunisia Team’s blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Flickr : Documentation of the work we do and also to upload our Creative Commons licensed illustrations so that they can be remixed/reused. (See Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr. We also helped coordinate a drawing project that Anorak Magazine wanted to involve the children with.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

There’s a ton of information on all this, but I still like Time Magazine’s now ancient 2012 article, Your Life Is Fully Mobile , which is part of their larger Mobile Tech Special Edition. Image Credits: Image one: Working from the beach courtesy of Citrixonline via Flickr Creative Commons. And never the twain shall meet.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

Flickr: Jeff_Werner Over in the Nonprofit Webmasters affinity group , Melissa Barry from the Parkinson's Disease Foundation started a great conversation. Issuu : Issuu is a popular digital publishing platform that also allows users to search a directory of the many magazines & reports that they have published.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

As you enter the books and magazines you already own, it lists for you the patterns in that resource connecting you to others who have worked on the same projects. If you have a Flickr account, you can easily connect it to Ravelry for uploading images. What worked, what didn’t, how the yarn holds up in washing, etc.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2012

Flickr: reid. NTEN would like to congratulate our member Mark Oliphant of Global Impact on being selected as a 2012 SmartCXO by SmartCEO magazine! I’d like to start off this week’s member news by congratulating my colleague, Annaliese Hoehling. Causes is prepping some new fundraising tools on their website!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

From Flickr Stream - Grandfather and Grandson. EROSKI is the consumer magazine edited by Eroski Foundation. The translation of the article is here and is about how grandparents help take care of their grandchildren and help their children save money on day care costs. This is to inform you that we have made an information of Consumer.es

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JANUARY 13, 2012

If you're an animal shelter or animal rights organization: Credit to Flickr user: Dennis from Atlanta 1. If you're a church, synagogue, or other religious organization: Credit to Flickr user: evilpeacock 5. Credit to Flickr user: Aberdeen Proving Ground 10. If you're a veterans organization: Credit to Flickr user: Official U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

" which was about someone using one of my photos in flickr, but not asking permission (let alone offering payment). OpenBusiness has a post called " Getting Rich Off Those Who Work for Free " which is summarizing a recent article about this in Time Magazine. gift economy,???

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

How 2 Nonprofits Utilize Social Media Part 1 and Part 2 , Joe Boland , Fundraising Success Magazine. 13NTC Flickr Group Pictures. Nonprofits, Online Giving, & Secrets from the Obama Campaign , SocialBrite. Crafting the Arc of a Powerhouse Campaign from 13NTC , James Howe. 13NTC Community Pictures on Eventifier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2008

I started with a story about how Ponzi and Chris helped me demonstrate the networked effect with flickr and twitter for a nonprofit training, then told my story about the Case Foundation and Parade Magazine's America's Giving Challenge , and then I set up a real time fundraising challenge. (My slides are here ).

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NTEN

MAY 16, 2011

Flickr: qthomasbower You may have noticed the recent articles on our blog about data. It's this month's topic here at NTEN (and you should subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter to receive the compiled "best of" version of these articles later this week).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Newspapers and magazines publish these sorts of articles regularly because they generate buzz. It’s also good to feature quotes from supporters who attended the event.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

How 2 Nonprofits Utilize Social Media Part 1 and Part 2 , Joe Boland , Fundraising Success Magazine. 13NTC Flickr Group Pictures. Nonprofits, Online Giving, & Secrets from the Obama Campaign , SocialBrite. Crafting the Arc of a Powerhouse Campaign from 13NTC , James Howe. 13NTC Community Pictures on Eventifier.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Yesterday I went along to the Mobile and Digital Conference in London , organised by Fundraising magazine, to hear first-hand about how, in a fast-changing world, charities are using social, mobile and digital media to reach new audiences and raise more money. Author: Julia Woodcock. So what were some of the main themes from the day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. In thinking about the evolution of social networks and having been deeply steeped in Object-Based Social Networks like those on flickr and, of course, the NpTech Tag, I am wondering about methods for aggregating resources discovered via Facebook from friends.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2010

Flickr: mi.chael If you've engaged any news source this week, you've probably heard about Steven Slater.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 8, 2009

Inspired by an article about birthday fitness challenges in Backpacker Magazine , Adrian decided to celebrate his 24th birthday with a physical and mental challenge, and a fundraiser for the Nashville Rescue Mission. Flickr Photo Credit: Happy Birthday to ME! uploaded by *spudballoo* Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Birdie's blogs and stories have been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Positive Thinking Magazine , and the Wall Street Journal as well as many other news outlets. Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times. Don’t know if they will do it in 2007.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. It's been info overload around here, but that's a good thing! What a great team-building and healthy idea!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

I'm taking a break from searching through Flickr for some visuals for our nonprofit blogging panel. These include: New York Magazine: Blogs to Riches - The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom by Clive Thompson. " Slate Magazine, Twilight of the Blogs: Are they over as a business? February, 2006. by Daniel Gross.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

For example, we have a small store in Oakland called Issues that sells international newspapers and magazines. Flickr photo credit: Strand Bookstore uploaded by Kathleen Conklin career advice bookstore entrepreneurship. Organize other local businesses. Title your email, "Ask Britt: your question topic."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. Fundraising Success Magazine covers The Great Debate: Direct Mail vs Online Acquisition. What do you think?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2008

by John Tierney, a recent study published in Science magazine found that, "spending money on others promotes happiness more than spending money on oneself.” Flickr photo credit: Happy uploaded by Bev Sykes. And volunteers are 42 percent more likely to be very happy than nonvolunteers." election economy bailout happiness

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

Lynetter Flickr. This flickr photo made me hit the pause button because of the date, not the content. That quote comes from a speech that Murdoch gave over two years ago. And, the terms "digital native" and "digital immigrants" comes from an essay by Marc Prensky dated 2001, over six years ago!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. Change magazine that tries to get at it. NMC Flickr Photos. Gary Hayes photos in flickr In Kenzo's notes. Check out my flickr photos of the event and my desktop That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. I have a piece in the Sept./Oct.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve known folks to bring plants, flowers from the garden, magazines and little tschotskes they picked up on eBay (e.g., Photo cred: Flickr. I used to bring home-baked cookies to my major donors, because I love to bake. A colleague of mine brought homemade jam. items the donor might like to add to a collection) for under $5.00.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

They left and wrote over 100 positive reviews of the evening, 12 positive reviews of the museum, and shared over 300 photos of their revels on Flickr. They left with free tshirts branded with the museum's name (and other sponsors), wrote about it on a wiki and shared photos on Flickr. To some people, these events may sound like losers.

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